Jonathan Rouse is the director and principal consultant of HED Consulting. He has ten years of research, training and project management experience, much of which has been spent in developing countries. He is also a widely published author.
Jonathan has an academic background in applied physics (BSc) and rural development (MA). He began his career in India in 2000, where he designed and managed a small village-based improved stove project. The failure of this project brought into focus the challenges of designing efficient, clean-burning, desirable stoves. It also motivated Jonathan to focus on understanding (and helping others understand) how to assess user needs using participatory techniques, overcome barriers to widespread adoption, and measure impacts using appropriate scientific methods.
In 2005 Jonathan was seconded to the World Health Organisation where he developed the Catalogue of Methods, which consolidates and attempts to demystify monitoring and evaluation tools for household energy. More recently he has worked with JP Morgan Climate Care on CDM/Gold Standard baseline and biomass renewability studies for stove programmes in South Asia and East Africa. He is presently working as a consultant to the World Bank IAP program in Bangladesh, and on programmes in India, Kenya and Madagascar with Berkeley Air and Practical Action.
Jonathan is based in the UK. Away from his laptop he works on his organic smallholding and chops wood for cooking and heating in his home.
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Kirstie Jagoe has worked within the field of indoor air pollution in resource poor settings for over 8 years. With a background in nursing and a masters degree in Epidemiology, Kirstie has managed several multi-national studies designed to monitor and evaluate the impacts of household energy programs.
She has a particular interest in using qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore and understand the inter-related complex impacts of household energy choices including issues related to personal injury, time and income generation, health, gender empowerment and education.
Kirstie has worked closely with grassroots organizations in Africa, South East Asia and Mexico in Shell foundation and World Bank sponsored projects. She has recently consolidated this experience to develop a guidance framework for household energy project evaluation.
Current projects include work sponsored by the World Health Organization, which aims to produce a systematic overview of the impact of programmes developing and disseminating interventions aimed at reducing exposure to household indoor air pollution.
Adam Biran is a lecturer in the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a social scientist working on household environmental health in low-income settings. He has a particular interest in social marketing and behaviour change interventions. He has over 10 years experience of consultancy, research and applied work in household environmental health and health promotion and has led assignments in Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Russia, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. For six months he was Acting Associate Director of resource centre providing information and technical support to the UK government Department for International Development. Other clients have included World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, Concern and The International Rescue Committee.
Adam's work in relation to household energy has included a study of wood collection by women and girls among Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania and a review of the evidence that smoke from indoor cooking prevents malaria by deterring insects (see Publications). He has also worked extensively on behavioural aspects of hygiene and sanitation.
Jonathan is the director of The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC). He is a qualified ecologist with over 12 years' experience in international biodiversity conservation, including community conservation programmes and IUCN Red Data Book research. He has managed several biodiversity projects in East Africa, South and South-East Asia, the Pacific and Madagascar, including several collaborative conservation initiatives between government departments, local communities and NGOs. Applying this experience to business and development issues, his current areas of interest and work include biodiversity offsets, monitoring systems, risk assessment, and the management of secondary impacts using cross-sector partnerships. He has had a close involvement in the design and implementation of the Rio Tinto biodiversity strategy.
TBC and HED Consulting are exploring opportunities to work together through the Climate, Carbon & Biodiversity projects.
jonathan@thebiodiversityconsultancy.com
Intern
Anton Hunt is a 4th year MEng mechanical engineering student at Oxford University. He first worked with HED Consulting in 2008, helping supervise baseline fieldwork in Bangladesh. He works part time with HED Consulting, assisting with questionnaire design, QA, data analysis, programming and writing.
In February 2010 HED Consulting signed an agreement with Berkeley Air to formalise a partnership enabling us to share resources and expertise. This move builds on five years of collaboration between individuals in the organisations on a range of household energy training, monitoring and pilot activities in Africa and Asia.
Berkeley Air is a social venture based in California, USA, dedicated to protecting global health and climate. Our team provides high quality scientifically based monitoring and evaluation of household energy initiatives and related projects with particular focus on measuring health and/or climate impacts. Berkeley Air's services include study design, field sampling, data analysis, report writing, presentation and training. Berkeley Air was founded in 2007 by David Pennise and Dana Charron.